Genuine Values Research Articles

Patient and Care Partner Perspective on Potential Undertreatment of Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment for Cardiovascular Disease.

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) affects up to 22% of US older adults aged 65 and older. Research suggests that physicians may recommend less cardiovascular disease (CVD) treatment for older adults with MCI due to assumptions about their preferences. To delve into the disparity between patient preferences and physician assumptions in CVD treatment recommendations, we conducted a multi-site qualitative study to explore the underlying reasons for this discrepancy, providing insights into potential communication barriers and strategies to enhance patient-physician relationships. Employing a descriptive qualitative approach, we conducted interviews with 20 dyads, comprising older adults with MCI (n = 11) and normal cognition NC (n = 9), and their respective care partners. During these interviews, participants were prompted to reflect on physicians recommending fewer guideline-concordant CVD treatments to older adults with MCI than those with NC and physicians presuming that older adults with MCI desired less care or treatment in general than those with NC. We identified three primary themes: (1) Most participants had negative reactions to the data that physicians might undertreat patients with MCI for CVD; (2) Participants suggested that physicians may undertreat patients with MCI due to physician assumptions about treatment effectiveness, patient prognosis, value, and treatment adherence, and (3) Participants proposed that physicians may elicit less input from patients with MCI about treatments because of negative physician assumptions about patient decision-making capacity and physician time limitations. This study underscores the pressing need for person-centered communication and involvement of older adults with MCI and their care partners in the decision-making process to ensure that decisions are well-informed, reflecting patients' genuine preferences and values. Addressing these concerns has the potential to substantially enhance the quality of care and treatment outcomes for this vulnerable population, ultimately promoting their overall well-being.

Имитация как атрибут трансформационной социальной среды

This article presents a study of imitation as a widely prevalent characteristic of transformative processes within society. The expansion of social-imitative characteristics in the system of social relations requires a person to take a more active life position in order not to lose the line between good and evil, genuine and artificial. Approaches, typologies, and causes of imitation in the context of a transforming society are examined. It is emphasized that in socio-humanitarian sciences, this phenomenon is represented as a method of human adaptation or socialization in the course of activity. The proliferation of imitations-simulacrum in social practices is directly related to the deformation of societal and individual values, as well as the search for more accessible mechanisms of social adaptation. Conflicts, crisis situations, and uncertainties associated with social imitation and leading to the manipulation of people’s consciousness are comprehended. The author underscores the necessity of recognizing illusions, wherein genuine values in a transforming society may be supplanted by simulacrum. The transformation of modern society entails the implementation of specific developmental strategies. Imitation, as a form of simulation, becomes a way of existence in the modern virtual society, where prior knowledge about the surrounding world undergoes significant transformation.

Forensic investigation of falsified antimalarials using isotope ratio mass spectrometry: a pilot investigation

We explored whether isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) is useful to investigate the origin of falsified antimalarials. Forty-four falsified and genuine antimalarial samples (artesunate, artemether-lumefantrine, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and sulphamethopyrazine-pyrimethamine) were analyzed in bulk for carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O) element concentrations and stable isotope ratios. The insoluble fraction (“starch”) was extracted from 26 samples and analyzed. Samples of known geographical origin maize, a common source of excipient starch, were used to produce a comparison dataset to predict starch source. In both an initial (n = 18) and a follow-on set of samples that contained/claimed to contain artesunate/artemether (n = 26), falsified antimalarials had a range of C concentrations less than genuine comparator antimalarials and δ13C values higher than genuine comparators. The δ13C values of falsified antimalarials suggested that C4 plant-based organic material (e.g., starch derived from maize) had been included. Using the known-origin maize samples, predictions for growth water δ18O values for the extracted “starch” ranged from − 6.10 to − 1.62‰. These findings suggest that IRMS may be a useful tool for profiling falsified antimalarials. We found that C4 ingredients were exclusively used in falsified antimalarials versus genuine antimalarials, and that it may be possible to predict potential growth water δ18O values for the starch present in falsified antimalarials.

Harnessing brand authenticity to promote prosocial service behavior

In today’s fiercely competitive, customer-centric, and service-driven marketplace, where customer satisfaction, trust, and loyalty are hard-won currencies, brand authenticity emerges as a pivotal cornerstone, potentially fostering prosocial service behavior among employees—a crucial driver of organizational success. Yet, the intricate link between brand authenticity and prosocial service behavior remains a compelling and notably understudied frontier. To address this gap, we explore how prosocial service behavior can be shaped by brand authenticity. Using partial least squares–structural equation modeling based on survey responses from a random sample of 410 frontline employees in the hospitality industry, we found that brand authenticity alone cannot spark prosocial service behavior. Instead, brands must foster psychological empowerment and organizational commitment in order to activate and harness the power of brand authenticity in nurturing prosocial service behavior. This is because employees require both a belief in their own influence (empowerment) and a strong attachment to their organization (commitment) to fully express the genuine values of a brand through prosocial actions. However, caution should be noted: introducing job autonomy might diminish the impact of psychological empowerment. This counterintuitive effect could be attributed to the perception that excessive autonomy, while meant to empower, might be seen as a lack of guidance or support. Such a scenario may potentially make employees feel isolated or overwhelmed by decision-making responsibilities.

Generalized Estimator of Population Mean Using Auxiliary Information in Presence of Measurement Errors

It is assumed in survey research that the respondent’s reported response is precise. More often, due to prestige bias, the data provided by respondents frequently include estimates that are significantly different from the genuine values. As a consequence, measurement error is present in the sample estimates that may affect the results. Therefore, this study illustrates an improved generalized estimator that utilizes auxiliary data under measurement error. A numerical study to establish its effectiveness is also conducted.

Macedonian writer Venko Andonovski upon true and imaginary artistic values

The Macedonian writer Venko Andonovski (1964) in his works of recent decades (novels “The ABC for the Naughty,” “The Navel of the Earth,” “The Navel of the World,” etc.) and essays (“Dostoevsky and McDonald’s”) raises the issues of the axiology of modern literature, the integration of its value meanings into the worldview of contemporaries. The value dominants of fiction and their interpretation in the works of modern authors have become an important problem in the 21st century for Slavic countries, especially acute for authors of “small literatures”. Against the backdrop of major socio-political changes in recent decades, the commercialization of literature has become intensive and has seriously affected Slavic literatures. A modern writer often must choose between genuine creativity (a serious and deep understanding of the fate of his people, important events of our time, improving language and style, etc.) and the commercial success that a bestseller provides. Reflecting on the phenomenon of the bestseller, V. Andonovski sees in it a manifestation of globalization in art and calls it literary fast food. The writer figuratively calls the choice between genuine and imaginary artistic values a choice between Dostoevsky and McDonald’s. In essays and novels, V. Andonovski explores the importance of preserving national tradition and orientation towards the achievements of world literature, containing values of the highest spiritual order.

Exploración de enfoques sustentables en la Expo de Dubái de 2020: una mezcla de diseños biofílicos y biomímesis

Dubai Expo 2020 provides an international platform for advancing innovation through meticulously curated exhibits with themes such as sustainability and cultural exchange displayed in pavilions dedicated to individual countries. This research study uses biophilic or biomimetic design strategies to assess the sustainability practices employed in a group of pavilions at the Dubai Expo 2020 that employ biophilic and/or biomimetic design strategies. Biophilic philosophy emphasizes nature-based concepts to foster positive relationships between humans and living organisms, whereas biomimicry imitates natural processes/systems for building practices. Incorporating biophilic and/or biomimetic techniques into pavilion design provides visitors with a one-of-a-kind experience while displaying explicit sustainability principles that go beyond the event's existing architectural framework guidelines. The research evaluation process includes architectural structure designs, materials used during production/creation periods, energy efficiency measurements implemented, and sustainable water management plans based on natural ecological systems. It will also evaluate the adherence of each pavilion chosen to genuine sustainability values by analyzing the incorporation of nature-based concepts into its overall design for potential future reference applications. These techniques have significant potential to improve human health, reduce environmental impact, and encourage global resiliency when implemented beyond Dubai Expo 2020. In conclusion, the research aims to inspire sustainable designs well beyond the Dubai Expo 2020 by demonstrating how biophilic or biomimetic practices are crucial facilitators in constructing spaces that maximize human welfare without endangering the environment. It is also a foundational resource for architects and urban planners committed to advancing sustainable architectural practices through future development projects prioritizing human welfare and environmental protection.

MUSEUM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE (DIGITIZATION) FORMATS AS IMPORTANT TOOLS OF MUSEUM ACTIVITIES

The museum is a complex, in-demand sociocultural institution of society that has recently transformed. Museum objects perform the function of combining spiritual experience, historical heritage, the search for identity, restoring the role and function of genuine traditional national values, education of civic dignity, social activity, methods of cultural verification, and patriotism of people through the merging of museum work, forms, processes of museum activity, as well as museum exchange and museum policy with current sociocultural processes and forms of organization of public life.
 The article shows the place, but also the role of museums in conditions undergoing significant changes in modern society, as well as the emergence of innovative communication and digital technologies that require the search for a new level of scale, resource, purpose, and organization of museum work.
 Materials end methods: The study uses a comparative method as a general scientific method of cognition, when, based on some characteristics of compared objects (museums), a conclusion is made about the similarity of various characteristics, as well as a systematic approach, which involves not only studying museum collections from the point of view of their cause-and-effect relationships but also aimed at studying their essence as an object of research in interaction with other museum objects.

Statistical inferences under step stress partially accelerated life testing based on multiple censoring approaches using simulated and real-life engineering data

Evaluating the lifespan distribution of highly reliable commodities under regular use is exceedingly difficult, time consuming, and extremely expensive. As a result of its ability to provide more failure data faster and at a lower experimental cost, accelerated life testing has become increasingly important in life testing studies. In this article, we concentrate on parametric inference for step stress partially life testing utilizing multiple censored data based on the Tampered Random Variable model. Under normal stress circumstances, the lifespan of the experimental units is assumed to follow the Nadarajah–Haghighi distribution, with and being the shape and scale parameters, respectively. Maximum likelihood estimates for model parameters and acceleration factor are developed using multiple censored data. We build asymptotic confidence intervals for the unknown parameters using the observed Fisher information matrix. To demonstrate the applicability of the different methodologies, an actual data set based on the timings of subsequent failures of consecutive air conditioning system failures for each member of a Boeing 720 jet aircraft fleet is investigated. Finally, thorough simulation studies utilizing various censoring strategies are performed to evaluate the estimate procedure performance. Several sample sizes were studied in order to investigate the finite sample features of the considered estimators. According to our numerical findings, the values of mean squared errors and average asymptotic confidence intervals lengths drop as sample size increases. Furthermore, when the censoring level is reduced, the considered estimates of the parameters approach their genuine values.

Deterritorialization in the context of cultural heritage and globalizing Msheireb downtown Doha

The State of Qatar has witnessed rapid urban activity and development in the decades since the discovery of oil, which has led to a large-scale change in the local cultural heritage and behavior of its residents. This uncontrolled rapid urbanization, along with the acceleration of globalization and modernity that has encompassed all areas, especially the city of Doha, has led to the deterioration and destruction of the downtown area of Msheireb. These transformations threaten the identity and local culture of Qatari society, affecting the place's sense of identity. The country's authorities have rushed to implement strategies and development plans aimed at redeveloping the old city center and improving the environment by creating innovative and inspiring living spaces that enable both locals and foreigners to communicate and integrate with one another to restore a sense of community. This study addresses the “Msheireb Downton Doha” project and the consequences of globalization. The study examines the concept of “deterritorialization” as a cultural condition that has pushed Msheireb Downtown Doha from modernity to postmodernism as an element of globalization. In this study, we will analyze the reconstruction of Msheireb, which helped to move the city toward cultural universality while simultaneously reducing regional borders. The study will analyze the extent to which this process succeeded or failed in preserving the spirit of the area's traditional architectural heritage and cultural identity in a manner that reflects the genuine sentiments and values of Qatari society.

High-school EFL Teachers’ Action Research: Evidence from Vietnam

Action research (AR), which involve rigorous cycles of implementing and reflecting on educational changes, brings genuine values to language teaching. However, due to several factors related to school cultures and the teacher-researchers, AR does not always live up to its expectations. Generally, previous studies have steered towards instigating an awareness of AR at the expense of obtaining empirical evidence on competencies and conditions for AR. This study examines teachers’ action research competencies and challenges in doing AR. A questionnaire (70 items, α = 0.809) was administered to 105 EFL teachers in various high schools in Vietnam. Among these participants, eight partook in follow-up semi-structured interviews. Chi-square analysis confirmed that top-rated competencies aligned with the traditional roles of high school English teachers, including giving feedback, using visual aids for presentations, and self-assessment. In contrast, teachers were least sure of their research skills and techniques. Thematic analysis complemented the quantitative data, ascribing the underdeveloped research capacity to a lack of guidelines, motivation, and resources. Consequently, the practice of AR might be improved with the cultivation of a teacher research culture. Other measures to incentivize high school EFL teachers in research engagement are also discussed in this paper.

Теорія вартості як надбання економічної науки: витоки політичної економії у широкому сенсі

The emergence of a new reality as Information Society and Network Economics has marked the beginning of global market transformations. Such transformations are conditioned by the latest technological advances and innovations in the sphere of information and communication but at their core, they involve the need for creative thinking about the new socio-economic picture of the world. An adequate response to the vital social demand is the formation of a relativistic economic theory. The logic of the Middle Way, as a classical institutional direction, is called upon today to form political economy in a broad sense through the economic value theory. The ideas about the subject and method of political economy in the in the broad sense as the theory of socio-economic relativity were substantiation updated in the works of K. Marx and F. Engels. However, the methodological foundations of positive relativism had been originally laid down in the science of economic and crystallized in the depths of its classical current. In the light of the classical value approach, the theories of Marxism and Neoclassical synthesis claiming to be the main ideological theories, were turned out to be marginal. The evolution of politic-economic orders of social life is value-conditioned. Its scientific comprehension as a historical process of the formation of value and price, deployment of a value genetic code (institutional constitution), that is, the architectonics of an economic system, is the lot of political economy in a broad sense. Accordingly, positively relativistic political economy in the narrow sense reflects the completeness of the value comprehension of the mission of public choice at each of the basic stages in the process of historical deployment of the being of institutional architectonics. Aristotelian creative insights associated with the recognition of the triple nature of economic value, the institutional architectonics of management, designed to shape the benchmarks for a virtuous social life, represent the core of genuine European values. Consistent value based analysis necessarily leads economic science to clarify the essence and laws of economic harmony, which is the equilibrium functioning and sustainable development of economic systems.

Improved compact model extraction of statistical variability in 5 nm nanosheet transistors and applied to SRAM simulations

In this paper, we look at how artificial neural networks (ANNs) may be used to improve compact model extraction of statistical variability in 5 nm nanosheet transistors (NSTs) and how it can be applied to 6NST-static random access memory (SRAM) simulations. To begin, both the TCAD simulation platform and compact model of 3D n-type and p-type NST have been rigorously validated against the experimental data. The transfer characteristics curves of 1104 NST samples generated by metal gate granularity, random discrete dopants and line edge roughness are used to extract the important figures of merit (FoM) including ON-current (I ON), OFF-current (I OFF), threshold voltage (V TH) and subthreshold slope. Meanwhile, we can collect the main compact model parameters of these NST samples using our automatic extraction technique. Furthermore, a multi-layer ANN engine is trained to anticipate the important compact model parameters by entering FoMs, which significantly speeds up the automatic extraction. When we compare the prediction results to the genuine values, we discover that their correlation coefficients are all larger than 0.99. Finally, we simulated the 6NST-SRAM circuit and obtained its stability variation, with the help of extracted NST variability by the aforementioned speedup techniques.

Estimating willingness to pay for public health insurance while accounting for protest responses: A further step towards universal health coverage in Tunisia?

IntroductionDeveloping countries face major challenges in implementing universal health coverage (UHC): a widespread informal sector, general discontent with rising economic insecurity and inequality and the rollback of state and public welfare. Under such conditions, estimating the demand for a health insurance scheme (HIS) on voluntary basis can be of interest to accelerate the progress of UHC‐oriented reforms. However, a major challenge that needs to be addressed in such context is related to protest attitudes that may reflect, inter alia, a null valuation of the expected utility or unexpressed demand.MethodsWe propose to tackle this by applying a contingent valuation survey to a non‐healthcare‐covered Tunisian sample vis‐à‐vis joining and paying for a formal HIS. Our design pays particular attention to identifying the nature of the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) values obtained, distinguishing genuine null values from protest values. To correct for potential selection issues arising from protest answers, we estimate an ordered‐Probit‐selection model and compare it with the standard Tobit and Heckman sample selection models.ResultsOur results support the presence of self‐selection and, by predicting protesters' WTP, allow the “true” sample mean WTP to be computed. This appears to be about 14% higher than the elicited mean WTP.ConclusionThe WTP of the poorest non‐covered respondents represents about one and a half times the current contributions of the poorest formal sector enrolees, suggesting that voluntary participation in the formal HIS is feasible.

Problems of education: fiction and reality

The problems of education are analyzed in close relationship with the cultural priorities of the mass consumption society.. Attention is focused on the fact that a teacher should not just be a translator of knowledge, but first of all a spiritual mentor, educator, bearer of true cultural values. Rapid scientific progress, the result of which has been noticeable, especially in recent decades, the filling of the everyday and cultural space of society with various technical innovations, has clearly actualized the problem of interaction, correlation and significance of technogenic and humanitarian components in the life of man and society. The sphere of education has turned out to be at the forefront of the confrontation of these spheres, with the obvious and aggressive dominance of the first. Signs of the crisis of modern humanitarian education are considered in the mirror of R. Young's science fiction story "30 Days in September", which describes the quite probable and already tangible consequences of the choice of a technogenic path of development by society for culture in general and the educational sphere in particular. Since material benefits are achieved and accumulated much more easily than spiritual ones, humanity needs to think about the obvious imbalance of these components of our life today and build an education system in such a way that the priority is not the desire for unified material benefits inherent in a mass consumption society, but for genuine spiritual values necessary for the development and improvement of a person as a whole personalities.

Estimation of Entropy for Log‐Logistic Distribution under Progressive Type II Censoring

Entropy is a useful indicator of information content that has been used in a number of applications. The Log‐Logistic (LL) distribution is a probability distribution that is often employed in survival analysis. This paper addresses the problem of estimating multiple entropy metrics for an LL distribution using progressive type II censoring. We derive formulas for six different types of entropy measurements. To obtain the estimators of the proposed entropy measures, the maximum likelihood approach is applied. Approximate confidence intervals are calculated for the entropy metrics under discussion. A numerical evaluation is performed using various censoring methods and sample sizes to characterize the behavior of estimator’s measures using relative biases, related mean squared errors, average interval lengths, and coverage probabilities. Numerical analysis revealed that the accuracy measures improve with sample size, and the suggested entropy estimates approach the genuine values as censoring levels decrease. Finally, an actual dataset was evaluated for demonstration purposes.

Воплощение фольклорных традиций в искусстве как антитеза эстетике постмодерна

The aim of the research is to comprehend the folklore traditions embodied in art as an antithesis to the aesthetics of the postmodern era. The author puts forward a hypothesis according to which, against the background of a change in the socio-cultural paradigm from modernity to postmodernism, folklorism acted as a tool for returning to genuine values ​​based on centuries-old authentic traditions. Folklorism is considered in the article as a phenomenon in which the potential of the collective memory of the people is laid, allowing a person to recognize himself as part of a single nation with deep historical roots and centuries-old cultural traditions. Research methods – the comprehension of folklorism as an antithesis in relation to the dominant sociocultural paradigms was carried out using the scientific principle of historicism, as well as the methods of synchronous and diachronous analysis. The results of the research – another surge of interest in authenticity against the background of the approval of postmodern ideas is presented as one of the examples of a cyclical return to true values ​​in art. It is concluded that the analyzed bright and self-sufficient artistic phenomenon, over more than two centuries of its existence, has repeatedly acted as a mechanism to smooth out the existing contradictions in the sociocultural model of the development of society, thereby creating stable axiological foundations in art.

KSNM60 in Cardiology: Regrowth After a Long Pause.

The Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine (KSNM) is celebrating its 60th anniversary in honor of the nuclear medicine professionals who have dedicated their efforts towards research, academics, and the more comprehensive clinical applications and uses of nuclear imaging modalities. Nuclear cardiology in Korea was at its prime time in the 1990s, but its growth was interrupted by a long pause. Despite the academic and practical challenges, nuclear cardiology in Korea now meets the second leap, attributed to the growth in molecular imaging tailored for many non-coronary diseases and the genuine values of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging. In this review, we describe the trends, achievements, challenges, and perspectives of nuclear cardiology throughout the 60-year history of the KSNM.

Detecting Levels and Innovative Applications for the Detection of Aromatic Compounds Using Multivariate Curve Analysis and Spectroscopy Data

Rapid technological developments and the increasing complexity of matrix work are increasing interest in finding robust technical solutions and fast and assertive data analysis. The data can be filtered to obtain spectral data in more useful spectral bands, the developed algorithms allow quantification of the spectral mixture, and it can be measured with or without titration. We focused in this study is on samples within the range of wavelengths (459,466,462,464 nm), different strategies are utilized to check Aromatic compounds. These enable us to survey a specific degree of ordinary compounds, much the same as benzene, toluene and xylene, and so on. In this study compares data analysis, received from sensor between A polynomial approximation PolyFit method and Processors Gases method, and compares the results of each, a method with the multivariate curve resolve - alternate least squares (MCR - ALS) regression strategy of analyzing spectral data of information with a different concentration. Additionally, adequately moo deviations of the anticipated values were accomplished from the genuine values, the standard deviation. And, the amended range was normalized to their region and to some degrees smooth. The autofluorescence establishment was subtracted, for the pure extend investigation, by utilizing logical approaches.

The Power of Authentic Leadership in the Workplace

If you were asked to describe your boss or supervisor in three words, what would they be? Were the words that came to mind positive or negative traits? Well, if one of your answers includes self-awareness, genuine, integrity, visionary, transparent, consistent, or practices solid values, then your leader is what the new generation is asking for. Authentic leadership has been on the rise as employees want more character-based leaders with whom they can build a work relationship and someone who is trustworthy as well as willing to learn. Followers are more likely to respond positively to a leader who is transparent and promotes a growth mindset.